Posted on 01/20/2018 10:14:46 PM PST by lowbuck
The Democratic Party have a tested and true playbook that is as predictable as the sunrise – when backed into a corner, cry racism.
Last year, liberal college professors called racist everything from math, to the song “Jingle Bells,” to showing up on time. During the Obama administration, every policy disagreement was labeled racist. Now, pointing out the reality of living conditions in countries where people routinely risk their lives to flee is racist.
And just like with every “problem” liberals find, they have a government solution for it. In the case of President Donald Trump and his “s-hole countries” racism, the solution is amnesty.
When asked about the President’s denial that he’s a racist, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) gave Trump an easy way to remove the label – give Democrats amnesty on 800,00 so-called DREAMers. “The president and the Republican Party have a chance to prove that now. If they will help us reach a bipartisan compromise to protect those who were protected by DACA, and to give those who are eligible to sign, and DREAMers a chance, it is clear evidence to me that they’re moving in the right direction,” Durbin said.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had Durbin’s back, saying the man who compared US troops to Nazis in World War II was “one of the most honorable people I’ve met.” Then Schumer joined in the absolution talk for Trump’s “racism” if he’d just give liberals nearly a million new voters. “I have a challenge for Donald Trump, okay? Actions speak louder than words,” Schumer said, “if you want to begin, just begin that long road back to proving you’re not a racist, you’re not bigoted, support the bipartisan compromise that three Republicans and three Democrats have put on the floor – everyone gave – and get the DREAMers safety here in America. That’s what he should do.”
For Democrats it’s simple: Do what we want and you’ll no longer be a racist. Until the next time we find it convenient to call you a racist.
Since Democrats switched from overtly embracing Jim Crow (implementing it, in fact), to covertly embracing its sentiment, they have paraded themselves as fighting racism. But the opposite is true.
Democrats are the ultimate demographic census takers, paying keen attention to the skin color over everyone, from universities to the team of Congressmen. It wasn’t a Republican who dismissed a bipartisan group of Members of Congress trying to forge an immigration deal as “five white guys,” that was House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
At least Democrats are consistent, they’re even racist against themselves.
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) didn’t want fellow Democratic Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) to join because they didn’t think he was black enough. Congressman Espaillat is Dominican, which the CBC believes is Latino and not African, even though he is of African descent. But that wasn’t good enough for the CBC.
Most Americans would find this to be just about the dumbest argument they’ve ever heard, and racist, mostly because it is. But it was done by Democrats, which is why it didn’t receive much media coverage, almost none on TV.
Espaillat, who is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (because, of course), had upset other CBC members because he’d challenged the corrupt former Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) twice. Race, it seems, beats corruption in the liberal hierarchy of outrage.
Congressman Espaillat is not a member of the CBC, so bigotry won. No charges of racism echoed down the halls of CNN or MSNBC.
But Trump, and all Republicans who oppose amnesty are the new Klan.
Why? Because it’s easier than trying to make the case for allowing in millions of no- and low-skilled workers who can’t speak English and will work for lower wages than Americans. It’s easier than explaining how the country is improved by pulling names out of a hat to grant them VISAs than picking the best and brightest from around the world. Rational thought has no place here.
But mostly they do it because, thanks to identity politics, the groups Democrats are looking to court have been conditioned to want it.
Democrats hope to corner the market on the Hispanic vote like they have the black vote (how’s that worked out?), so they’ve spent decades hammering home to people that they should identify as their race and not as individuals. When something bad happens to someone of that race it is portrayed as an affront to everyone of that race. The country, in this narrative, is so racist that:
It’s irrelevant if the event was related to race, different races being involved is enough “proof.” It’s only a matter of time before it happens to you. This racism is systemic, so you can’t escape it. We will protect you from these horrible things. More of the “system” that is churning out racism is somehow the “fix” for it. Like I said, rational arguments have no place here.
Democrats would be a dangerous political force if they had anything to offer beyond racial exploitation and victimization. They don’t. But they do know how to put on a show.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) even went so far as to claim he was moved to “tears of rage” upon hearing of Trump’s “s-hole” comment. Of course, Booker knows s-holes, he was mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He also knows how to lie, having created an imaginary friend named “T-Bone,” about whom he recounted many personal stories…until someone bothered to look for him and Booker admitted he never existed.
Pointing that out, however, is probably racist.
All the cries of racism are getting old and I think most folks are waking up to this card being played and (rightly) calling bullshit.
>> Democrats would be a dangerous political force
They are
Trump ain’t falling for it
Getting old? Nobody pays attention to it anymore. Identity politics only works in their circle-jerk, nobody outside of that even thinks about it.
Identity Politics is the framework by which the demonization of the Alinsky Method is weaponized. The Left do not win the argument through reason, they bully their opponent until they are silenced. It is insanity learned from the worst tyrants in human history.
The Problem of Identity Politics and Its Solution
What has traditionally held Americans together is the idea that each of us is made in the image of our Creator and endowed with certain unalienable rights. But not only that idea. We are also held together by the culture that emanates from the intermingling of dynamic peoples and unchanging principles. To combat identity politics, we must emphasize an American nationalism based on both a commitment to the ideals of the American Founding and a shared love of our national history and culture—a history and culture of individual freedom and religious pluralism, resistant to centralized authority and ever expanding into new frontiers and new possibilities.
The American people are united by our creed of freedom and equality, and also by our habits, our manners, our national language, our territorial integrity, our national symbols—such as the National Anthem, the Flag, and the Pledge of Allegiance—our civic traditions, and our national story. We should tell that story forthrightly and proudly; we should continue our traditions of local government and patriotic displays; we should guard the symbols of our heritage against attack; and we should recognize that the needs of our citizens take priority.
From the liberal lexicon of libberish !
Racism: The Republican-engineered failure of Liberalism to sufficiently socialize the American economy to where black success can be measured solely by how much guilty white charity each black receives. (note: Blacks cannot be Racists, Black Racism is an impossible term.) See Social Justice.
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The Democratic Playbook is lie, cheat, steal and murder.
The play has worked because GOPeers are sell-outs, collaborationists and whimps. The rest of us aren’t falling for it.
Racism only works inside the CNN bubble, everyone else knows it is a tactic to shut down discussion.
Trump needs to shut down these “identity” caucuses in Congress. They do nothing but think up ways to separate themselves from Americans who are just that Americans...
These blacks, latinos and others are nobody without a govt-financed identity.
Caucuses Rely on Racial, Ethnic Politics to Move Congress
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos Published November 12, 2003
WASHINGTON – Editor’s note: This is the third report in a three-part series investigating the role of congressional caucuses and the special interests that seek to influence them
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (search) say they are “the conscience of the Congress,” and have used the moniker most recently to explain the group’s opposition to war in Iraq and the cost of its aftermath.
“The Bush administration had not presented us with the evidence that we needed — both constitutionally and morally — to support its plans,” CBC Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (search) said in September when he spoke for the entire caucus to explain why the group’s 39 members voted en masse against President Bush’s emergency request for $87 billion for military costs and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It has not done so, I must note, to this day,” Cummings, D-Md., added.
In a Congress that is nearly 200-caucuses strong, the CBC is like all the rest in that it was formed around common interests. However, it has the distinction of being the best funded and among the first to emerge.
Formed in 1969 by the 13 black members then serving in Congress, the caucus’ goal is “to positively influence the course of events pertinent to African-Americans and others of similar experience and situation, and to achieve greater equality for persons of African descent in the design and content of domestic and international programs and services.”
Currently representing 22 states, the CBC continues to weigh in mostly on civil rights and domestic issues relating to health care, education and labor. Besides race issues, members are bound by their generally left-of-center politics and consistency in voting Democrat.
“The black caucus was founded at a time when there weren’t many blacks in Congress — and there is still a disproportionate number. This gave them a collective effort and they’ve been able to do good work,” said former Minnesota Rep. Bill Frenzel, who served 20 years in Congress and is now a fellow at the Brookings Institution (search).
CBC members cite as a recent victory their influence in persuading Senate Democrats to stall judicial nominees like Mississippi judge Charles Pickering (search). They are also actively opposing the nomination of African-American California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown (search), whom they say is too temperamental and unqualified to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Earlier this year, the CBC filed a friend of the court brief in favor of the affirmative action policy at the University of Michigan Law School. The policy was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“We still believe that there are challenges that exist in the 21st century,” said CBC spokesman Paul Brathwaite, who emphasized the group’s focus on civil rights, affirmative action, disproportionate levels of poverty and unemployment among black families.
But some are quick to point out that as strong and resourceful as the CBC is, it does not represent all blacks.
“They are not the only ones,” said Alvin Williams, President and CEO of the conservative-leaning Black America’s Political Action Committee (search). BAMPAC finances black candidates who support school vouchers and privatizing Social Security and oppose abortion rights — all positions antithetical to the CBC.
“We’re for having input from all angles. Now it’s just woefully imbalanced,” Williams said.
The CBC is backed by a powerful non-profit arm, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (now headed by Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee), which according to public Internal Revenue Service figures, raised $7 million in 2002, more than any other caucus-related foundation or institution currently operating.
Much of the foundation’s money goes to annual conferences, seminars, scholarship programs and public health and home ownership initiatives. It also gets support from heavy hitters in the business community like State Farm, Miller Brewing, and Pfizer, all represented on the CBC Foundation’s Corporate Advisory Board.
While the CBC is the oldest and best-funded caucus founded on shared racial or ethnic concerns, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (search) is not far behind as one of the most influential.
The caucus, formed in 1976 by the five Hispanic members then serving in Congress, now has 20 members and its own separate foundation, which raised $2.3 million in 2001.
Like the CBC, its members are all Democrats and share many of the CBC’s positions. Most recently, the two caucuses announced that along with the Congressional Native American Caucus, the Asian Pacific American Caucus and other House Democratic members that they are backing a bill that would increase health care access to minorities.
Chairman Ciro Rodriguez, D-Texas, said the Hispanic caucus has been instrumental in getting to the table issues that are both uniquely important to Hispanics as well as to the nation as large.
“[Hispanics] have played a significant role in this country, not only in defending this country, but participating in the development of this country,” Rodriguez told Foxnews.com. “Of course, we’d like to have more influence, but we’re getting there.”
Immigration issues, education, civil rights and integrating Hispanics in arts and entertainment top their list of recent activities, Rodriguez said.
The Hispanic caucus hasn’t taken a strong stand against the war, but it has actively worked to defeat President Bush’s judicial nominees, including the first Hispanic nominated to the D.C. Circuit Court, Miguel Estrada (search), who dropped out of the running after a two-year Senate stalemate.
Like the CBC, the Hispanic caucus has its detractors. In March, six Hispanic members of Congress — all Republican — formed the Hispanic Conference (search) to combat what they say is an imbalance in representation in their own ranks.
“Today we introduce a group who will look out for the best interests of all Hispanics — not just those with liberal politics,” said Rep. Henry Bonilla, R-Texas, at the group’s inception. Florida Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen chairs the group.
While ethnic and racial caucuses have proven a major force on Capitol Hill, the growing diversity among Hispanic voters — demonstrated by the formation of the Hispanic Conference — may prove advantageous to Hispanics in the long run, said Larry Sabato, director of University of Virginia’s Center for Politics (search).
“It used to be that Hispanics were as Democrat as African-Americans, but they are becoming more diverse. That means they have a strong foothold in both parties and therefore are more listened to,” Sabato said.
The CBC, on the other hand, might be putting itself at a disadvantage by being so heavily partisan, Sabato suggested.
“African-Americans are so overwhelmingly Democratic that when Republicans are in charge of both houses of Congress, they have no reason to listen to them.”
The Dems are “crybullies”.
Racism only works inside the CNN bubble, everyone else knows it is a tactic to shut down discussion.
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That’s right.
Political Correctness was designed to control the narrative.
The White Caucus was unavailable for comment.
Political Correctness was designed to control the narrative, our nation and our lives, my FRiend.
Hopefully, Trump and some republicans with balls or ovaries can find ways to remove the funding of these minority hate groups.
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